Are You Treating Your Water Correctly?

By
Advanced Home Services
|January 22, 2018

The average home’s water supply has a significant level of filtration
and conditioning it goes through before water reaches your faucets. Or
if you use ground water from a private well on your property, you likely
have your own water treatment system. But something many homeowners don’t
realize is missing from their homes is protection form hard water.

Idaho Falls, ID water softener installation has become increasingly popular, and very helpful for homeowners. Hard
water is the result of a high concentration of minerals within the water
supply. To be specific, calcium and magnesium. These minerals are completely
harmless to ingest, but they do a good deal of damage to your
plumbing system over time, leading to corrosion and subsequent leaks. Hard water
should be managed before it has the chance to damage your pipes.

But naturally, you’d probably like to know if a water softener installation
really is that advantageous. With a water softener you can eliminate:

Soap Scum

This is an irritating problem to have, particularly if you do a good job
of keeping your bathroom and kitchen area clean, only to discover the
development of more soap scum a few days later. There’s no need
to worry though—the presence of soap scum doesn’t mean you’re
bad at cleaning.

It most likely means you do, in fact, have hard water. The minerals we
mentioned above actually prevent soap from dissolving as easily as it
normally would, resulting in that annoying soap scum.

Water Spots

Have you ever noticed water spots appearing on your glassware after you’ve
done the dishes? This is another symptom that can occur because of calcium
and magnesium in the water supply. Like the minerals, water spots are
harmless to you, albeit unattractive looking.

However, the same problem causing these water spots can cause damage to
your dishwasher too.

Residue Buildup around Drains and Sinks

This is almost always the sign of a plumbing issue. This buildup outside
your faucets and drains exists within your plumbing, too. Slowly, the
mineral deposits continue to build up, and restrict the volume within
the pipes. Eventually, not only will you have to replace your faucet and
drains, but potentially even your pipes.

Dry Feeling after Showering

Have you ever dried off after taking a shower to discover your skin feels
raw and even flaky? This can certainly be the cause of hard water. The
minerals in hard water can dilute your body wash, causing this irritating symptom.

Worn Out Clothes

Soap scum builds up in your shower when you have hard water, and it does
so in your washing machine too. As a result, it prevents your clothes
from rinsing off completely, and breaks down these clothes faster. You
may be surprised by how much longer you clothes last just by addressing
your hard water problem.

As you can see, water softeners eliminate a number of problems you may
have been experiencing in your home that you didn’t even know you
could resolve.

At Advanced Home Services, we are the standard when it comes to providing
great service.
Contact us today for water softener installation and other exceptional
water treatment services!